Just like last year’s ranking, Morocco is, once again, positively improving its results. It is ranked 25th by the report, bettering its position compared to the previous edition.
After more than four decades, the Polisario Front has opted for the single-party system. Now, the separatist movement’s leadership is intending to create its own opposition. It decided to roll out the red carpet to the coordinating committee of the «Sahrawi Initiative for Change» and prepare it to speak for the voiceless.
Pressured to abandon their faith and convert to Christianity, the life of Moriscos in Spain was almost unbearable following the Expulsion decreed by King Philip III. While, everyone claims that they have surrendered to this pressure and ended up integrating into the new Christian society, new poems written in Arabic and discovered by Caren Barcelo and Ana Labarta deny this chapter of history. Details.
Traveling across Europe and the MENA region with her family and a camera in her hand, Melinda Mrini has never considered moving to a specific country. Yet her passion for journalism led her to settle down in Morocco for almost ten years ago. Today, this adventurous reporter is a successful role model for all women and girls out there.
Coal mining has been the activity that kept Jerada’s miners busy since 1927. Extracting anthracite, a type of coal that contains relatively pure carbon, these workers were exposed to hard conditions that had a huge impact on their future lives. Alongside the economic and demographic aspects thoroughly explained in one of Yabiladi’s previous articles, and which have affected the lives of these miners, they had to worry about the potential health issues associated with mining
On the 29th of December, Moroccans recall the Jbell Baddou battles commemorating national resistance under the French protectorate. The date was chosen by the High Commissioner for resistance veterans and members of the liberation army to «preserve the national memory». Revisiting the colonial past in Morocco through the battle fought by Amazigh tribes against the French colonization.
Unable to increase production, Charbonnage du Maroc, assigned the extraction of coal in the city of Jerada, closed its doors leaving behind hundreds of unemployed miners. To survive, some of them left and others stayed only to struggle with the economic hindrances the city faces. Jerada, Morocco’s former coal-mining hub and the economic and demographic challenges behind the closure of mines.
Only fifty of the Grenfell surviving households have been rehoused by the British government. After the tragic fire that killed more than 80 people, including Moroccans, some of the victims are still living in temporary accommodation. Details.
The economic chapter is in the heart of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance’s current visit to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In fact, the aid expected to be granted to the Kingdom in 2012 by the Gulf Cooperation Council has seen a significant decline.
As another hearing is scheduled for today to try Nasser Zefzafi and other Hirak activists in Casablanca, they have started a hunger strike yesterday. The prison administration’s response was to put the detainees in single cells.